Screen trivia
Name a horror film
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a horror film”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 116 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Psycho
- The Exorcist
- Halloween
- The Shining
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Alien
- Scream
- Friday the 13th
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Carrie
- Poltergeist
- The Omen
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- Nosferatu
- Night of the Living Dead
- The Thing
- Get Out
- Saw
- Rosemary's Baby
How deep does “Name a horror film” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsPsycho · The Exorcist · Halloween
- Below the Surface15 answers · 25 ptsAlien · Scream · Friday the 13th …
- The Deep35 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss60 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 35 answers starting with A, C, D, H, I, J, L, M, P, R, S, T and U. The Abyss has 60 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 116 answers in total, 78 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “It”. Longest: “An American Werewolf in London”.
- T, P and D are the most common first letters; together they start 43% of the answers.
- 10 answers can be typed more than one way: “Evil Dead” counts as The Evil Dead.
How to go deeper
- Start with T: 35 of the answers begin with it.
- Psycho, The Exorcist and Halloween are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Background characters score much higher than heroes.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a horror film”?
- The usual first answers are Psycho, The Exorcist, Halloween, The Shining and A Nightmare on Elm Street. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a horror film”?
- 116 in all: 5 on The Tip, 15 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 60 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a horror film” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “It” and the longest is “An American Werewolf in London”.
- How hard is “Name a horror film”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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